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Re: Claire McCaskill: ‘We need to demilitarize’

Originally Posted by Dittohead not!

It does indeed, but still doesn't make looting and rioting OK. For one thing, the loot is stolen from innocent third parties, not from the cops who did the beating and arresting. For another, the property damage that results from rioting also belongs to innocent third parties.

There are no innocent third parties, all white people are evil and might as well of pulled the trigger themselves. All white people deserve to have their stuff taken away...

Re: Claire McCaskill: ‘We need to demilitarize’

Originally Posted by tacomancer

That is only one piece of an effective strategy and by itself isn't usually very effective.

It's pretty effective in that people seldom rob stores or steal cars while locked up. We could do more, of course. We could put the thieves and other assorted bad guys in tents surrounded by barbed wire and machine gun nests and make them do hard labor until they earn their freedom, for example. One reason that people steal is that they haven't learned to work for the things that they want.

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge" Stephen Hawking

Re: Claire McCaskill: ‘We need to demilitarize’

Originally Posted by Dittohead not!

It's pretty effective in that people seldom rob stores or steal cars while locked up. We could do more, of course. We could put the thieves and other assorted bad guys in tents surrounded by barbed wire and machine gun nests and make them do hard labor until they earn their freedom, for example. One reason that people steal is that they haven't learned to work for the things that they want.

Or we could participate in community development projects so people have viable economic alternatives